I've been reading the past few days about the history of Mastodon - the Gab invasion and backstory regarding which instances defederated them and etc, and where qoto stands on this.
For all of this drama it doesn't look like people on qoto can see much on Gab anyway. For instance, if you look up Andrew Torba (Gab CEO) his account does appear in search from here, but only toots from him prior to like 2020 appear. The rest seem to be censored from somewhere. The same is true for other Gab accounts; it looks like most of them either show nothing or only old toots.
I am super not interested in participating in Gab but am kind of curious about the tech here. Has qoto blocked newer toots from Gab users? Or has Gab blocked the rest of the fediverse? Or what? @freemo
@battaglia01 That instance is silenced @freemo
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@freemo realllllly? I guess the last time I looked on the moderated servers, I thought I saw it there. @battaglia01
This server has been in existance from the early days of the fediverse. We retain a history of virtually all posts from the fediverse throughout its entire history in our search... those posts your seeing are from back when gab was still ont he fediverse. They left some time ago, but the history of them remains here.
@freemo @obi thanks, makes sense!